Lighting attachment.



G. DIETZ, E. J. LAFFERTY & G. J. BESSINGER. LIGHTING ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1914.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

GEORGE DIETZ, EDMUND J. LAFFERTY, AND GEORGE J. BESSINGER, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

LIGHTING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE DIETZ, En- MUND J. LAFEERTY, and GEORGE J. BEs- SINGER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lighting Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a lighting attachment and is of a type that employs a lighting device consisting of a sparking block which is braced against a movable element, such as a toothed metal wheel, whereby sparks are thrown in the desired direction, such device being mounted on a bracket, the bracket being adapted to be attached to a suitable lighting fixture, the lighting device being provided with a handle for operating it.

The invention is further designed to provide a lighting attachment of this kind in which the supporting bracket is made so that it can be attached to the upright tubular part of a gas burner, the tubular part being provided with a tip, the bracket being provided with means for adjustably securing it to the tubular part of the burner so that the spark can be directed at a point on the tip to make the lighting of the gas easy, the device being furthermore provided with a handle that is easily found in the dark and that can be turned, even when at an incline, so as to operate the lighting device.

The invention is further designed to provide a bracket which is made of one piece of metal, the bracket comprising a supporting element for the sparking device having bearings for the shaft of the sparking device and providing a holder for the metal which provides the blank, and also having arms thereon which act as a clamp to secure the device to a burner.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the improved lighting device with a part of the gas burner shown in dotted outline. Fig. 2 is a back view of the device illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the top part of the bracket, showing the blank from which the upper bearing plate and the barrel or sleeve for holding the sparking metal is formed.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing we illustrate the usual type of gas burner, consisting of the pipe 10 and the tubular portion 11, on the top of which is arranged a tip 12. The bracket or supporting feature of the lighter comprises a single sheet of metal in the preferred form in which it is made, although it will be understood that other forms can be employed if desired.

In the type illustrated in the drawing the bracket comprises a strip 13 made of sheet metal, which has arms 14 bent back to one side of the strip, the arms 14 being bent inward, as at 15, so as to give the clamping part of the arms a more circular form and to also provide more resiliency to said arms, the arms 14 being formed into eyes 16 at their ends, these ends being provided with means for drawing them together, the means illustrated consisting of a screw 17 having a head 18, the screw passing through both arms, and a nut 19 is placed on the screw so that when the screw is turned in one direction the ends 16 are drawn together and the clamp is fastened around the tubular part 11 or any similar element to which it is attached. In this manner the bracket can be raised and lowered and adjustably secured in any position that is desired. At the ends of the strip 18 are arranged the bent over portions forming bearing plates, the lower bearing plate 20 being preferably adjacent to the clamp arms 14, and the upper bearing plate 21 being at the top of the strip 13. The bearing plate 21 is preferably provided with a barrel or sleeve to hold a suitable sparking alloy or metal, this barrel being preferably made integral with the bearing plate. The preferred form of barrel or sleeve is shown in the drawing, and in particular in Fig. 4 it is illustrated as being flattened out in the form of a blank, the upper bearing plate 21 having a projecting plate 22 with the wings 23 on either side and having at its end a disk 24. When the wings are bent up so that their ends meet they form the sleeve 25 and the disk 24 is bent up to close the end of the sleeve, and in this way an open ended barrel or sleeve is formed which receives a block 26 of any of the usual sparking alloys or metals that are employed in lighters of edge, the roughened edge being usually formed by providing the periphery with a set of small teeth 29. The sparking Wheel is arranged on the end of a shaft 30 which extends through the two bearing plates and is provided at the bottom with a handle.

The preferred form of handle is one that can be easily found in the dark and that can be turned even if it is at an angle to the shaft 30 and which also will turn said shaft. To bring this about We provide a stem 31 which is provided at its top end with a hook 32, the hook 32 being passed through an eye 33 at the top end of the shaft 30, the stem thus being arranged so that it can swing easily in the eye, the bottom end of the stem having a weighted finger piece 34 which is knurled or otherwise suitably roughened so that the fingers Will not slip on it when it is grasped. WVhen feeling for the handle in the dark if the handle is struck it will give easily on account of its swinging attachment and there is no chance of bending the shaft'30 or bending the handle portion, which would take "place if the handle were of appropriate length and were stiilly-arranged on the bracket. If the handle happens to be so disposed that the stem is at an angle to the shaft 30, the turning of the finger piece will turn the sparking wheel and the shaft 30, since the hook 32 and the eye 33 act as a universal joint.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

A lighting device comprising a bracket formed of a single sheet of metal and consisting of a strip having arms intermediate its ends bent to one side thereof to form a clamp, means for drawing the arms toward each other, the metal of the strip being bent to the side opposite the clamp at the ends of the strip so as to form separated bearing plates, the top bearing plate having a barrel formed integral therewith, a spring in the barrel, a sparking block in the barrel, a shaft rotatably arranged in the bearing plates, a sparking wheel on the top of the shaft and which acts to limit the outward movement of the sparking block, and a handle on the bottom of the shaft.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our hands, this 10th day of November, 1914:.

GEORGE DIETZ. EDMUND J. LAFFERTY. GEORGE J. BESSINGER.

Witnesses:

WM. H. CAMFIELD, M. A. JOHNSON.

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' Washington, D. 0. 

